"In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being."
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"I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown."
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"There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you."
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"You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it."
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"She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach."
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"We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling."
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"The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea."
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"A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex."
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"A Tea Party tidal wave is coming."
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"Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again."
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"I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts."
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"The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves."
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"The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form"
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"Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose."
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""I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics"."
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"In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point."
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"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."
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"New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists."
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"If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable."
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"Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s."
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